Category: Thoughts

  • Friction

    2024-07-09

    I want to talk (again) about friction. Things that slow us down. How some friction is good, and some is bad.

  • Trusting code

    2024-03-24

    You kinda have a relationship with code from your projects. You probably have feelings about it. As I've been thinking about code style, I've also been thinking about how it's important to build up trust in a code base.

  • Quotes and Thoughts

    2023-12-20

    There's a lot going on right now and I've been having a lot of thoughts about what is going on. In some cases I think I've expressed these thoughts well. In other cases, other people have expressed things that have helped me. Here are some quotes and thoughts...

  • I’m using AI

    2023-11-26

    This AI tech is amazing. And works so well when aiding humans rather than replacing them. But gosh I can see how it breaks the web.

  • Remembering

    2023-10-25

    If we don't remember, we don't have empathy.

  • The View from the Bottom of the Pile

    2023-10-02

    It seems upside-down, but sometimes when you're at the bottom of the pile, you can see a whole load more looking back up! And there's opportunities for programmers here.

  • What is intelligence anyway?

    2023-07-06

    This episode of This American Life is amazing. It has several parts and looks at artificial intelligence from a number of different creative angles. There’s fascinating stories of how people become convinced of the “intelligence” of ChatGPT. There’s a short story that reverses the roles and tries to see how intelligent machines might question the […]

  • I’m tired of web dev

    2023-07-02

    The web used to be fun and simple and easy to get stuff done with. Now it's discovering that someone who doesn't know what they were doing used a div instead of a button and fixing it involves half a day of frustratedly poking around files that make no sense and fixing a broken build process.

  • A 5 Minute Window: What?

    2023-01-09

    Yesterday I posted a nearly-silent video, with just some music, about PHP arrays and objects. "That was weird", I hear you say. Yeah. Maybe.